The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 108
r, was to choose a new superior,and one of their number, Godric, was unanimouslyelected to the office of abbot. He was almost at oncecalled upon to assist in removing the ruins of Mede-shamsted, and when doing so he erected a pyramidicalcross over the bodies of eighty-four monks, who hadperished in… … Crow/and tury, it must, of course, be received with some caution,although it no doubt gives the traditional account of thedestruction of the abbey and its gradual restoration inthe time before the Norman conquest. In 1076 theConqueror made Ingulph abbot of his monastery atCrowland, and at the time…
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